Short Stories

Nowadays humour and a fine style have disappeared, and abuse is accepted as wit.

For I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth.

They desired nothing and were at peace; they did not aspire to knowledge of life as we aspire to understand it, because their lives were full. But their knowledge was higher and deeper than ours; for our science seeks to explain what life is, aspires to understand it in order to teach others how to live, while they without science knew how to live; and that I understood, but I could not understand their knowledge. They showed me their trees, and I could not understand the intense love with which they looked at them; it was as though they were talking with creatures like themselves